WWCâ€™s house show/TV taping scheduled for tonight at the â€œCosme BeitÃ­a SÃ¡lamo
Arenaâ€ in CataÃ±o, PR has apparently been canceled, according to a post on the
companyâ€™s Facebook fan page. They will return to action next Saturday September
6th with their event â€˜Septiembre Negroâ€™, which will be taking place at the â€˜PepÃ­n
Cestero Arenaâ€™ in BayamÃ³n, PR and Sunday September 7th in at the â€˜Cancha Bajo
Techo de RincÃ³nâ€™ in RincÃ³n, PR.

They did announce some of the matches that will be taking place in the Bayamon
leg of the weekend tour, this being Saturday night:

Scheduled for this event is the first ever â€œWWE Hall of Famer-Carlos ColÃ³n Cupâ€.

The two surprises that they were alluding during the week that will be announced
at todayâ€™s TV were: 1) â€˜The Precious Oneâ€™ Gilbert will be returning to WWC next
Saturday night to present his segment â€œLa Opinion de Gilbert; and 2) Invader #1
will also return to WWC next Saturday night and â€œhe has a message for all the
Puerto Rican fans.â€

With all the recent events that took place and led to Del Rioâ€™s departure from
the WWE, it sure was interesting to see that they used the Alberto Del Rio name
to refer to him.

Over the last several weeks a â€œwarâ€ has started to unfold, but not necessarily
storyline wise. Unfortunately it seems that WWC producer and marketing manager,
Jose Roberto Rodriguez, has decided to make things very personal between himself
and a person that he calls a â€œrich manâ€ that is playing the part of a wrestling
promoter. He is referring to WWLâ€™s president Richard Negrin, with whom it seems
that Rodriguez is very upset with for some reason. He has decided to mock and
attack Negrin on his Facebook page and over the course of the last several days
he has posted messages mocking and to certain extent insulting Negrin. The
following are some screen shots with the original messages in Spanish. The
English translation follows each screen shot:

â€œMeanwhile, the rich man, happy and satisfied, behind a pharmacy desk in
Guaynabo City.â€ NOTE: Negrin is a successful business owner of several
pharmacies in different areas of Puerto Rico.

â€œTickets and more tickets. My grandma used to say: â€˜Never give a credit card to
a rich and stupid kid because the consequences will be devastating.â€ NOTE: The
tickets he refers to are air fare tickets. WWL just announced some talents for
their event in October that will be coming from the mainland such as: Apolo &
Habanna, Shane â€˜The Glamour Boyâ€™, Rosa Negra, Mr. 450, Balls Mahoney and Sabu
among others.

â€œIf I ever get my own business, I will hire the best editor, best writer, best
communicators, the best PR (complete combo), the best talent available (by their
acts you will know them); but before all that I will hire the best accountant in
the island who will certainly say to me: Are you crazy? And then I will stop
playing in the wrong business and will concentrate on my other unfulfilled
childhood dreams: get the entire Star Wars collection and I will justify it by
saying that the PR fans are not worth it and you canâ€™t do business in this
place.â€

A while back Negrin did a radio interview in which he was
asked why he had chosen to run events in Mexico and not repeat in PR. He
responded that the fans in PR did not support the first effort last year the way
he expected and in Mexico he was able to get the support from the fanbase
because they knew the kind of product he was presenting. He also did state that
he would not run PR again or at least in the foreseeable future. In an interview
this week Negrin stated that he is giving it a second chance because the fans
have asked him to do so and being a businessman he knows that the customer is
always right.

In my opinion, this type of rant seems quite childish, least to say very
unprofessional. I was very surprised and disappointed when I learned about the
situation. Why you might ask? Well, even though I have no relationship
whatsoever with Mr. Rodriguez, nor WWC, I still held him in high regards as a
very savvy marketing and business person. Unfortunately, the fact that they are
starting to get some competition and all of the sudden he reacts this way makes
him look weak, not to say that it makes him and the company he represents seem
desperate. Competition is not a bad thing. It normally raises the otherâ€™s game
and provides an opportunity to get more creative and find ways to outdo oneâ€™s
competitor. In this case, it seems that Mr. Rodriguez is trying to mark his
territory and, with what very much looks like a personal attack, he tries to
undermine Negrinâ€™s efforts to bring another alternative to the wrestling fans in
PR. We will have to wait and see where all this leads too.

If at any point Mr. JR Rodriguez wishes to make any comments, he is more than
welcomed to use this forum.

World Wrestling League (WWL)

Pedro Figueroa, from LuchaLibreOnline, did an interview this past week with
WWLâ€™s president Richard Negrin talking about the first show they did last year
in the island, success in Mexico, the infamous radio interview in which Negrin
stated that he would not bring another show to PR and why he has retracted, what
to expect on this second showing and much more. The following is the link to the
interview: http://youtu.be/LyFWcz-9Enw. As a disclaimer, the interview is in
Spanish.

WWL is bringing back their version of â€˜La Silla Calienteâ€™ interview segment (The
Hot Seat). They are promoting the segment as being â€˜controversialâ€™. You cannot
get any more controversial than Dennis Rivera as one of the first guests. And
according to the teaser, the second guest, Thunder, will probably not fall short
on being controversial either. Here are a both teasers for the debut of the
segment during this weekendâ€™s TV episode:

On another note, it seems that the much awaited match between the two Puerto
Rican Goddesses, Ivelisse Velez and Rosa Negra (Black Rose), may not happen
after all. Ivelisse has recently been associated to the new AAA project for the
â€œEl Reyâ€ Network, which is scheduled to begin filming in a couple of weeks. One
the film dates, October 18th, is the same date for the WWL event INSURRECTION,
which is where they were scheduled to face off. Due to this situation, it would
appear as the match could be off the card, unless the two sides can come to an
agreement. This is definitely a match that a lot of fans in the island were
waiting to see. We will look for more details and will bring them to you as soon
as we get them.

You can also see â€œÃdolos del Ringâ€ every Saturday at 12:00PM noon on â€œSÃºper
Canalâ€ throughout the national territory of Dominican Republic via channel 33,
and in the different cable television companies in the country. In the United
States it can be watched on Dominican View, which is distributed by the
following cable television companies: Verizon Fios channel 1548 in Los Angeles
(CA), Dallas (TX), Washington (DC), Baltimore (MD), Richmond (VA), Norfolk (VA),
New York (NY), Syracuse (NY), Buffalo (NY), Philadelphia (PA), Boston (MA),
Tampa (FL), Fort Wayne, Pittsburgh (PA), Providence (RI), Harrisburg (PA);
CABLEVISION channel 213 in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Internationally
via TDS channel 464 in CuraÃ§ao.
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